The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-08-18

j, L. Armstrong, a ripe scholar, |
thoroughly endorsed by Bishop |
Wilson and other prominent minis
tiers of the Baltimore conference.
Owing to several causes the school |
was not prosperous. Finding he
could not operate it without pecu-
mary loss he obtained permission of
the trustees to transfer his unexpir-
ed lease of TWO years to Misses
Hood and Heron, having made a |
satisfactory arrangement with them
for the purchase of his outfit.
These ladies, however, were not
willing in the depressed condition
of the college to take it for a term
of only two years as it would re
quire a considerable amount of time,
money and labor to rehabilitate the
school and put it into successful OPP
Grafton. The board of trust recogn-
lied in them the elements of success
and agreed with them that they
might take the unexpired lease of
Prof. Armstrong and should have
the option 10 extend it for three
years if their management should
| be successful. At the same time
the president Of the board of trust
was made also president of the fac
ulty. He waa and is a Methodist
and was at that time chairman of
the board of stewards of Pulaski
station.
The lessees at once went to work
in q way and with tact and ener-
gy that commanded attention and
inspired confidence. Trained teach
ers were employed at heavy outlay.
The building was reftted. The
reputation Of the principals and
teachers brought numbers of pupils
from abroad. The town and COM
munity awoke to the fact that the
school was entering upon new life.
Discussions disappeared and the
community became deeply interest
ed and enthusiastic in its support.
During the first year there were in
The faculty three Methodists, not
including the president of the fac
ulty, more than there were of any
other one denomination. In the
last year there was only one Metho
, dist, not Including the president of
the faculty. That there were not
others was due solely to the fact
that two Methodist ladies who were
employed failed to keep their en-
, gagements, one on account of death
; in her family and one because SHE
: obtained situation nearer home.
But if they had all been Methodists
The religious conduct of the school
would not have been changed in the
least and was entirely satisfactory
to the patrons, TO the trustees and
20 the Methodist church in Pulaski.
The pupils when not otherwise
directed by parents and guardians
attended the Methodist church and
Sunday school.
: The daughters Of ministers wheth-
er in active service Or not were
taught free of charge in the En
glish branches. Methodist mi mis-
: ters have literally patronzed the
school and have been welcomed
The chil,lfen of the presiding elder
and of The preacher in charge OF
Pulaski station and of the local
preachers rs well IS Of two of the
relatorsin the bill and the grandchil-
iren OF another, all of whom
~ of hEtf
I'd the school and some CT them
: even in vacation in order to obtain
the superior advantages derived
, from its teachers. The school has
been publicly and privately com
mended 4y them all preyioua to the
fling Of the bill in this cause. The
following report Of the school was
made to the annual conference in
1886. as RESPONDENTS are infnr""A
and believe, by the committee on
! education whose secretary was the
preacher in charge CT the station at
Pulaski and was adopted by the
conference and spread on its min
utes:
Martin Female College, under
! the princlpalship Of Misses Hood
! and Heron, and located at Pulaski,
Tenn, is successfully conducted
, and maintaining and increasing its
reputation as an institution of the
highest grade, 1t has the largest
boarding patronage it has had for
years. We believe this is the only
; endowed female institution of learn
+ ing In our conference 1t has an
t endowment Of $4,000, generously
: donated by Thomas Martin, deceas
/ en-, OF our chu Oh. With the inter
] est from this endowment, $500
: per year, debt now on this build
t ing will soon be liquidated, after
: which the interest on the endow.
!, ment can be used in eleemosYnary
G lines"
{ This shows the estimate placed
0 upon the college at that time by the
i pastor at Pulaski and by the con-
). ference.
In SO far as it tends to show that
b The property belongs to the confer
e ence or that its endowment can he
t used in eleemosynary lines it is iu-
s | correct and unauthorized,
i. SO much in answer to the charge
that the school is put in such rela-
ton to the Methodist church that
o the church could not give that care
e which it asks Of the church. Never
= has the school been exclusively I'M
E der Methodist control or had exciu
S sively Methodist teachers II has had
, | teachers of all denominations and
!: some who were not members OF any
church. 1t has never been withou;
a Methodist at its head. Or its
original nine Trustees fye were
| Methodists and four were not. All
/ of the officers are now Me;hodists.
: Of its present trustees eight are
. Methodists and one is Presby tie
rian. Of these eight Melhodists
! six are officers of Pulaski church
. and of the quarterly conference
: The school has never been 50 under
+ Methodist influences as at present
q and itsI management never before
I so satisfactory to the Methodist
= church and people at Pulaski and